Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive 21st-century economy.

5 out of 5 stars

Taking a stance!

By
Oliver Nielsen
on
11-09-16

Manage Your Day-to-Day

Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

By:
Jocelyn K. Glei (Editor)

Narrated by:
Fred Stella,
Laural Merlington

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,617

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,345

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,325

Are you overextended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda by the time you leave the office? The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too.
Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace. We’ll show you how to build a rock-solid daily routine, field a constant barrage of messages, find focus amid chaos, and carve out the time you need to do the work that matters.

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for creatives!

By
M. E. Donnelly
on
07-16-13

Maximize Your Potential

Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

By:
Jocelyn K. Glei

Narrated by:
Nick Podehl,
Kate Rudd

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
238

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
207

Story

4 out of 5 stars
203

We’ve entered an exhilarating new era of self-invention. With access to new resources, technologies, and connectivity, you no longer have to rely on traditional channels to craft an incredible career. But surviving and thriving in this new landscape requires a highly proactive approach.
Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.

4 out of 5 stars

Great commuting read

By
Sean O'Sullivan
on
02-04-17

The Motivation Myth

How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win

By:
Jeff Haden

Narrated by:
Ray Porter

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
270

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
235

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
232

It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-worker loses 20 pounds, or a friend runs a marathon while completing a huge project at work, we assume they have more grit, more willpower, more innate talent, and above all, more motivation to see their goals through. But that's not at actually true, as popular Inc.com columnist Jeff Haden proves. "Motivation" as we know it is a myth. Motivation isn't the special sauce that we require at the beginning of any major change.

5 out of 5 stars

A quick and worthwhile read

By
G. Lincoln
on
01-11-18

Make Your Mark

The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact, The 99U Book Series, Book 3

By:
Jocelyn K. Glei (Editor)

Narrated by:
Joyce Bean

Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
115

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
97

Story

4 out of 5 stars
97

Are you ready to "make a dent in the universe"? As a creative, you no longer have to take a backseat. In fact, stepping up and embracing entrepreneurship is the fastest route to impact. But where do you start? And what sets the businesses that succeed apart? To find out, we asked the bright minds behind companies like Google X, Warby Parker, Facebook, O’Reilly Media, and more to share their startup wisdom.

5 out of 5 stars

Motivating and inspiring book

By
Da'lo
on
02-08-15

The Art of Stopping Time

Practical Mindfulness for Busy People

By:
Pedram Shojai OMD

Narrated by:
Pedram Shojai OMD

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
20

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

We're too tired to think, too wired to focus, less efficient than we want to be, and guilty about not getting enough time with our loved ones. We all know that we feel starved for time, but what are we actually doing about it? Precious little. In The Art of Stopping Time, New York Times best-selling author Pedram Shojai guides us towards success with what he calls time prosperity - having the time to accomplish what you want in life without feeling compressed, stressed, overburdened, or hurried.

2 out of 5 stars

I wish that I had never purchased this book

By
Innate
on
12-09-17

Deep Work

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

By:
Cal Newport

Narrated by:
Jeff Bottoms

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,927

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,260

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,212

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive 21st-century economy.

5 out of 5 stars

Taking a stance!

By
Oliver Nielsen
on
11-09-16

Manage Your Day-to-Day

Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

By:
Jocelyn K. Glei (Editor)

Narrated by:
Fred Stella,
Laural Merlington

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,617

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,345

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,325

Are you overextended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda by the time you leave the office? The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too.
Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace. We’ll show you how to build a rock-solid daily routine, field a constant barrage of messages, find focus amid chaos, and carve out the time you need to do the work that matters.

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for creatives!

By
M. E. Donnelly
on
07-16-13

Maximize Your Potential

Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

By:
Jocelyn K. Glei

Narrated by:
Nick Podehl,
Kate Rudd

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
238

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
207

Story

4 out of 5 stars
203

We’ve entered an exhilarating new era of self-invention. With access to new resources, technologies, and connectivity, you no longer have to rely on traditional channels to craft an incredible career. But surviving and thriving in this new landscape requires a highly proactive approach.
Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.

4 out of 5 stars

Great commuting read

By
Sean O'Sullivan
on
02-04-17

The Motivation Myth

How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win

By:
Jeff Haden

Narrated by:
Ray Porter

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
270

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
235

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
232

It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-worker loses 20 pounds, or a friend runs a marathon while completing a huge project at work, we assume they have more grit, more willpower, more innate talent, and above all, more motivation to see their goals through. But that's not at actually true, as popular Inc.com columnist Jeff Haden proves. "Motivation" as we know it is a myth. Motivation isn't the special sauce that we require at the beginning of any major change.

5 out of 5 stars

A quick and worthwhile read

By
G. Lincoln
on
01-11-18

Make Your Mark

The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact, The 99U Book Series, Book 3

By:
Jocelyn K. Glei (Editor)

Narrated by:
Joyce Bean

Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
115

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
97

Story

4 out of 5 stars
97

Are you ready to "make a dent in the universe"? As a creative, you no longer have to take a backseat. In fact, stepping up and embracing entrepreneurship is the fastest route to impact. But where do you start? And what sets the businesses that succeed apart? To find out, we asked the bright minds behind companies like Google X, Warby Parker, Facebook, O’Reilly Media, and more to share their startup wisdom.

5 out of 5 stars

Motivating and inspiring book

By
Da'lo
on
02-08-15

The Art of Stopping Time

Practical Mindfulness for Busy People

By:
Pedram Shojai OMD

Narrated by:
Pedram Shojai OMD

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
20

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

We're too tired to think, too wired to focus, less efficient than we want to be, and guilty about not getting enough time with our loved ones. We all know that we feel starved for time, but what are we actually doing about it? Precious little. In The Art of Stopping Time, New York Times best-selling author Pedram Shojai guides us towards success with what he calls time prosperity - having the time to accomplish what you want in life without feeling compressed, stressed, overburdened, or hurried.

2 out of 5 stars

I wish that I had never purchased this book

By
Innate
on
12-09-17

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

By:
Daniel H. Pink

Narrated by:
Daniel H. Pink

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
821

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
728

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
723

Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science.

5 out of 5 stars

Fun. Enlightening. Fast Paced.

By
W. Brooks
on
01-11-18

The Productivity Project

Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

By:
Chris Bailey

Narrated by:
Chris Bailey

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,778

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,578

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,564

Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.

5 out of 5 stars

Informative, Positive, Realistic and Fun. At last!

By
Elizabeth
on
05-06-16

Organize Tomorrow Today

8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life

By:
Jason Selk,
Tom Bartow,
Matthew Rudy

Narrated by:
Christian Steiner

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
264

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
231

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
230

Dr. Jason Selk and star business coach Tom Bartow combine the most effective elements of both their disciplines to offer an organizational improvement plan that anyone can learn and apply right away.
Organize Tomorrow Today is composed of eight simple, concrete, easy-to-understand guidelines - the multitasking myth, building and breaking habits, the two-minute mental toughness drill, and more. The key to high-level success is to pick one thing to change and master it.

5 out of 5 stars

if you're going to get one self-improvement book..

By
Corey
on
01-02-17

Principles

Life and Work

By:
Ray Dalio

Narrated by:
Ray Dalio,
Jeremy Bobb

Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,747

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,099

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,084

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

4 out of 5 stars

Personal

By
Robert F. Jones
on
10-08-17

Psyched Up

How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed

By:
Daniel McGinn

Narrated by:
Johnathan McClain

Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
80

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
67

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
69

In
Psyched Up, journalist Daniel McGinn dives into the latest psychological research and interviews athletes, soldiers, entertainers, and others who, despite years of practice and enviable track records, will ultimately be judged on their ability to deliver a solid performance when it's their turn to shine.

5 out of 5 stars

Fun to follow, easy to remember stories/techniques

By
Rob Humes
on
06-24-17

Barking up the Wrong Tree

The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By:
Eric Barker

Narrated by:
Roger Wayne

Length: 9 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,214

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,954

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,932

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them - and find out, in some cases, why it's good that we aren't.
Barking up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn't, so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent presentation of cognitive research

By
Reggaws
on
09-12-17

Payoff

The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations

By:
Dan Ariely

Narrated by:
Simon Jones

Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
663

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
574

Story

4 out of 5 stars
566

Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way much of what we do can be defined as being motivators. From the boardroom to the living room, our role as motivators is complex, and the more we try to motivate partners and children, friends and coworkers, the clearer it becomes that the story of motivation is far more intricate and fascinating than we've assumed.

4 out of 5 stars

Love Ariely, but rehash of old stories

By
Scott
on
12-16-16

The 30-Day Productivity Plan

Break the 30 Bad Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Time Management - One Day at a Time!

By:
Damon Zahariades

Narrated by:
Joe Hempel

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
13

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
12

Story

5 out of 5 stars
12

Are you sick of procrastinating, losing focus and leaving projects unfinished? Do you feel overwhelmed by your responsibilities and unable to control the chaos of your day? Do you feel you could be more productive if only you knew how to manage your time?

5 out of 5 stars

Exelent book, would recomend

By
Anonymous User
on
11-23-17

Essentialism

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By:
Greg McKeown

Narrated by:
Greg McKeown

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,139

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,163

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,068

By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy - instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing - it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives.
Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

New York Times best-selling author Kevin Kruse presents the remarkable findings of his study of ultraproductive people. Based on survey research and interviews with billionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students, and over 200 entrepreneurs - including Mark Cuban, Kevin Harrington, James Altucher, John Lee Dumas, Pat Flynn, Grant Cardone, and Lewis Howes - Kruse answers the question: What are the secrets to extreme productivity?

5 out of 5 stars

Productivity not time management - great reminder

By
Amazon Customer
on
01-02-16

Pre-Suasion

Channeling Attention for Change

By:
Robert Cialdini Ph.D.

Narrated by:
John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,284

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,967

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,944

The author of the legendary best seller
Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini, shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

5 out of 5 stars

He's done it again!

By
Andrew Silberman
on
09-29-16

Perennial Seller

The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts

By:
Ryan Holiday

Narrated by:
Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
659

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
587

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
576

How can we create and market creative works that achieve longevity? Holiday explores this mystery by drawing on his extensive experience working with businesses and creators such as Google, American Apparel, and the author John Grisham as well as his interviews with the minds behind some of the greatest perennial sellers of our time.

3 out of 5 stars

Another Holiday marketing success, ironically .

By
Luke
on
10-29-17

Publisher's Summary

The average person checks email 77 times a day, sends and receives more than 122 email messages a day, and spends 28 percent or more of their workweek managing a constant influx of email. Even when we're away from work, checking email is the most popular activity we engage in on our mobile devices, outranking even browsing the web or social networks.

Email is an incredibly powerful and essential tool for doing our daily work, but it has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety, and distraction from our work. We have reached a tipping point where "email overload" is no longer a unique problem - it is everyone's problem. So how can we solve it?

With Unsubscribe, Jocelyn K. Glei, founding editor of Behance's 99U and author of Manage Your Day-to-Day shows listeners how to repair their relationship with email, transforming it from a constant source of distraction into a productive tool again. She explains how and why email is so overwhelming and addicting, and lays out strategies for limiting the energy you spend on email by setting meaningful work goals, clarifying which people and messages truly matter, and creating a daily work routine that aligns with your natural creative rhythms.

Through her actionable, thoughtful advice, Glei will help you to:

Stop letting email dictate your mood, your focus, and your to-do list

Process your inbox efficiently based on what and who really matters to you

Dispatch excess email without guilt

Compose messages that get people to take action

Deliver criticism in an effective, considerate way

Establish boundaries that allow you to engage in more meaningful work.

With activities and style checklists, Unsubscribe makes the task of learning how to manage email easy, approachable, and fun. What's more, by completely transforming the way we relate to our inboxes, it helps us make room in our lives for more meaningful work and more creativity.